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Meanings of ancestors in inglés
Person from whom another person is descended.
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Examples for "ancestor"
Examples for "ancestor"
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Clearly, the common genes suggest that the viruses share a common ancestor.
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The island was also home to a dwarf elephant ancestor, for example.
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However, in peach ancestor, these syntenic regions were quickly lost or deleted.
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Finally forced to honor his ancestor two thousand years after the fact.
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Yes, the portrait of my ancestor that I brought back from France.
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The new enthusiasts see West as the ancestress of strong modern women.
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And then the stolidly common-sense Puritan ancestress in her made her laugh.
3
So Mrs. Clifford had an ancestress who was a Roumanian, had she?
4
Nella-Rose, now that her father considered, was dangerously like her picturesque ancestress!
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And in Nan the soul of her French ancestress lived anew.
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But again the blood of his forebear was rousing strange tremblings within him.
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Are you aware, sir, that these Crozers killed your forebear at the kirk-door?'
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But he is not generally intrusive, content to render homage to his illustrious forebear.
4
Henry Moore shrewdly avoided all mention of his artistic forebear.
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His grandson Jeremy Matthews spoke at the unveiling, paying tribute to his forebear's bravery.
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Their noble ancestresses of the Renaissance understood and did these things better-soHelen reflected.
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She was human, after all, and had thousands of plebeian and primitive ancestors and ancestresses.
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She was what her ancestresses had been for generations.
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That poem was written by a very clever man who married one of my ancestresses.
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Your ancestresses came from citadels and castles; no Schorlin ever yet brought his bride from a tradesman's house.
Usage of ancestors in inglés
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Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors made civilization possible by creating agriculture.
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About two million years ago, our hominin ancestors began to change again.
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While her ancestors were concerned with commerce, however, her business is e-commerce.
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The sequence differences, however, indicate that they are derived from different ancestors.
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Of course, Ramsey's ancestors had been outside, freezing in the slaves' quarters.
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But our ancestors' eventual triumph only altered the balance, not the reality.
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Straight away he booted up his computer and Googled 'ancestors buried house'.
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Think of the disgrace you'll bring to your family and your ancestors.
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What my ancestors held in those regions I cannot hope to regain.
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Our ancestors used not to chew and spit it everywhere unlike today.
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Maybe his ancestors had given him the arguments he needed to make.
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In truth, our ancestors saw him in the worst of all lights.
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Analysis of genetic coding can reveal the 'ghosts' of long-extinct human ancestors.
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His ancestors in Spain had been content the the title of sultan.
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They rest by the side of their ancestors in the priory church.
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Is there any evidence of it in other animals or our ancestors?
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Ancestors through the time
Ancestors across language varieties
United Kingdom
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New Zealand
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South Africa
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